Reading Selection # 5

Panturu, Stan. "The Informative-Formative Valneces of Multimedia Technologies in the Intercultural Education Framework." Univeristy of Ploiesti Bulletin, Educational Sciences Series LXII 19-24.

The reason I chose this article was because it not only dealt with educational technology, but because I am also in a multi-cultural class and this article deals with iintercultural eduction. The article first discusses the mission of education in a multicultural world. The article's short version of the mission for a intercultural school is "to provide equal educational condition for all children, taking into account their physical, cultural, national and religious diversity. The article then goes into discussing the role of the school as a unit for modern learning as well as the pragmatics of intercultural education. The article then goes into the integration of multimedia technology in the intercultural education. The author discusses challenges such as generating an adequate environment for learning, but then discusses the methodology of integrating the multimedia. The article says that an educational program where the new technologies are used involves certain logical, physiological and pedagogical stages. The author also states that "by using the new information technology, the learning process is enriched, involving transformational learning, effective teaching (adequate to students needs), effective learning, improving and diversifying the methodological repertoire."

I think the biggest thing I learned from this article was how technology relates to the learners, and how it effects the education and how it can work in a multicultural classroom. I did not necessarily learn any new technological tools to use in my classroom or with my players. Since I did not get any new technological ideas out of this article I will not be able to take those directly and use them with my students or players. I will be able to take some of what I learned in this article, however, and use at as a base thought process when it comes to multicultural education and the integrating of technology in the classroom. This article has given me a base core of knowledge as to what should be the mission in intercultural classrooms and how technology can apply itself and make in an impact in these classrooms.